Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology

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Dr Jenny Barke

Research & Impact Fellow

J.Barke@exeter.ac.uk

Overview

My research focuses on the ethics and methods of co-producing research across disciplines, sectors and with communities using participatory and creative research methods. I am particularly interested in the facilitation of co-produced/collaborative/participatory research activity and how groups can be supported to work togther to create impactful, rigorous and meaningful research.

I am a psychologist, and have worked across health, social sciences, arts, and humanities. I have expertise in a range of qualitative research methods. Much of my research has drawn on creative, arts-based methods and has involved collaborating with arts practitioners, community organisations, and charities.

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Research

My research interests include:

  • Participatory and collaborative or co-produced research methods
  • The ethics of participatory research
  • Peer research/community research and relational expertise
  • Participatory research methods training
  • Arts based and creative methods
  • Research impact 
  • Researcher wellbeing 
  • Loneliness and positive ageing

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Supervision

 I am interested in working with doctoral students in areas across my research interests, including:

  • Participatory research methods
  • Community engaged research
  • The ethics of arts-based and community research methods

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Publications

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  • Barke J, Thomas Hughes H. (2018) Community Researchers and Community Researcher Training: Reflections from the UK’s Productive Margin’s: Regulating for Engagement Programme, (Bristol Law Research Paper Series.

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Biography

I am a psychologist by background and began my research career working in the field of visible difference and genetics. Through this work I became interested in arts based research methods and co-producing research with people with lived experience.

I have worked in both the third sector and Universities exploring a range of research topics, primarily with community organisations and community based researchers.

Before joining the University of Exeter in 2024 I was the Head of Participatory research at The Young Foundation, responsible for designing and delivering participatory research and peer research training with a range of partners including universities, the NHS, charities and local government. Research topics included Youth Violence, Health Equity, Eco-Anxiety, Social Infrastructure, access to healthly food and employment practices. 

Prior to working at the Young Foundation I worked on a series of co-produced research projects at the University of Bristol including working with community researchers, academics, community organisations and artists to explore the history of the Single Parent Action Network www.thespanproject.org.uk/ and collaborating with a community research collective of older people to research loneliness, develop interventions and share findings through creative writing and monologues productivemargins.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/projects/isolation-and-loneliness/ 

I also worked for the University of the West of England with community evaluators on the Bristol Ageing Better research and evaluation Age UK Bristol | Bristol Ageing Better

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